WILL VAN LIFE WORK? (Moving out of the Airstream Classic) #rvlife

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Feb 9, 2025
It feels totally unreal, but it's time to move out of the Airstream Classic and into the VAN! 🚐 We are stoked about our new Airstream Interstate GT van and van life, but how is this all going to work? We're still trying to figure that out. First things first though, is that we will seriously have to downsize to make van life work. Join us as we do just that in this video!
We were supposed to be doing a video today all about moving out of the Airstream and moving into the van
but
This happened. We went to a coffee shop
What did you eat Daniel? Um, I actually
Accidentally ate a donut with banana in it and I'm
definitely allergic to bananas like anaphylactic
throat closes up completely
And I'm definitely allergic to bananas. That was like 10 minutes ago. So we're trying to get ahead of it and he's drinking Benadryl?
Liquid Benadryl is faster acting 5 to 10 minutes versus a pill which can take 20 to 30 minutes. Okay, just do it
You're making me nervous
This is 25
Milligrams of
really yummy stuff
How bad does that taste?
Not as bad as anaphylactic shock
In other news
Dash
How are you liking the van dude? Oh, you're asleep again? Yeah, that's not shocking
Typically with a the food allergy that I've had in the past it takes about 30 minutes. I just ate that banana bread
5 to 10 minutes ago
So I figured 5 to 10 minutes plus liquid
Benadryl which can take 5 to 10 minutes. I'm I should have gotten ahead of it best-case scenario. I'm just tired today
Dana really shouldn't be driving
Well, the good news is that Benadryl won't take effect for 10 minutes, I'm only five minutes away from the house so
This shows you how much you trust me to drive the van
How you feeling?
Good good
Hopefully I got ahead of it
All will be well with the world
DVD
You're rubbing your eyes
Itchy eyeballs
Made it back. Yep. How you feel? How you feeling?
My beard it's just a little bit but so far so good
that's such a small small small amount the last time I ate a banana was probably 15 years ago and
After that incident, I wound up in the ER and with an IV and all that's another crazy story
but if you ever seen the movie hitch with Will Smith like
Like that's what my face looks like after allergic reaction and then my throat it's like
It's like breathing through a straw. It's a very horrific horrific thing. But that was after eating a full banana
I just had basically some banana bread
And a tiny bite of it
It's fine. So what are we gonna do now while we wait?
We're gonna unload so we packed up some stuff in the airstream and we have a staging area at her dad's house in the garage
We're basically just unloading stuff and that allows us to sort through everything
We're basically going to we have three things that we're gonna do. We're going to
Purge because we have a lot of extra stuff that we don't need we're going to
Donate because I've got a ton of stuff that can be donated
And then I'm also gonna probably sell some things as well so purge donate and sell
That's kind of three stages of getting rid of stuff
Stage four
Pray Daniel does not have an allergic reaction that
Totally is a terrifying and he ruins our plans for the day. This is what I look like
like that
Yeah, so if I don't look like that. Oh, yes, I can see it's kind of puffy right here. See
a little bit
So
But I think I got some Benadryl on board fast enough. We'll see
Yeah, I'm the one who fed him the banana bread. I feel kind of bad about this. Oh, yeah. Look at that
Yeah, it's not bad
but
Starting a little bit
Okay, hopefully it's just a minor thing. I feel like warmth here my beard kind of
So far so good, okay, I'm loading yay
Best thing you can do is not get worked up when you have something like that happen
And if you have allergies, you don't talk about it's like your mind can manifest things and the last thing you want is your mind
Like manifest a reaction
Hey D, you know what I know you want to let the air conditioning run cuz dash is in here
But I'm pretty sure you don't have to let the vehicle run to do that
That's a very good point it was like your mind you're like, I'm gonna keep the AC running
Leave the car on but you don't
And it's like a full-on AC unit, too. So
That being said we don't want to keep the door open too long either. It's not trying to like cool off, Florida
That would take a lot more than this one AC unit
There's a whole bunch more stuff in the airstream
The travel trailer still and in case you're wondering why Daniel and I are wearing all black
I had a photo shoot for work this morning. So we're about to go change clothes and then continue doing this
Tommy Bahama stuff
Something we'll talk about in a future video
Is all and I mean all of the stuff that came with this Tommy Bahama edition
and there's a ton of accessories, so
Yeah, so stay tuned future video we'll go through like each one of the items just like
Coolers and cups and koozies and all kinds of crazy cool stuff
These are a couple more boxes of the Tommy Bahama things
It's like an ice bucket
That is this was a
Coconut oasis hand cream
That's a little bizarre, right
Okay clothes changed let's go check on Dana on the baby
I happen like expecting them to both be asleep in the back of the van
Hopefully he's feeling better
You look good, yeah, yeah, I think I'm
Calm under pressure, right? Yeah, I think that I got to it soon enough
And it wasn't I mean like honestly
not over-exaggerating
it was just such a tiny tiny little amount and honestly, I think I
It just wasn't enough. There must have just been like I
Could definitely taste it's weird because like when you haven't had something in so long. It's
Prominent like if you haven't eaten something, I haven't had a banana in 15 years and it was just like
So I could tell but I don't think there was that much actually in that bite that I ate
I didn't have that much if I had a whole banana this video would go completely differently and
There's zero doubt my mind would be in the ER right now
But I think I just had like trace amounts a little bit of banana and got to early enough
My eyes aren't water anymore. So I got some Benadryl on board. The most dangerous thing that can happen is
You know full anaphylactic reaction throat closes up. That's when it gets really crazy
It's kind of like somebody's strangling me that that's honestly what it feels like
And if you have allergies that are you know, intense like that like drop it in comment below cuz I'd love to know
I know I'm not the only one that has like crazy allergies
But yeah overall
Crisis averted who knew they would put banana
Donut called old-fashioned
like I've never had an old-fashioned with banana in it, but
So there you go. I
Mean does this dude look stressed at all to you?
He ain't got time for that and we have a lot to accomplish today. So
Ain't nobody got time for that. We need to keep moving. Let's get out the little suitcases
It doesn't look like we brought a whole lot over here, but it feels like we did. Here's
Okay, so good news since I didn't murder my husband this means that we gotta head back to the Airstream the travel trailer and
Get another load
The amount of stuff we have in there. I
mean
You saw the videos with Cece and Lily's organizing
We haven't done our purge recently
We realized that if he didn't drive the truck and I didn't drive the van or vice-versa
That it was gonna take us an hour to get the campground and back
I'm gonna have to do that multiple times today because the game plan is to take the Airstream to Airstream of Tampa drop her off
today and be officially
in the van
So Daniel had to let me drive
And don't worry. He gave me a pretty thorough lesson in a parking lot first
That being said I can guarantee you he's up in that truck worried about what all the stuff I'm doing, too
He's probably gonna school me about not listening to music, which I'm not doing. I'm a hundred percent discount focusing on driving
This backup camera though. It really makes driving feel a little bit like a video game. It's pretty cool
There's Daniel
I'm doing it y'all. This is awesome
Yep, this thing is dreamy to drive compared to towing the Airstream with the truck. Just saying
All right, the van successfully parked and Dash and I
We're working on picking up the Airstream while daddy gets a little bit of a nap
But I think he's probably been adrenaline-induced
from his banana scare earlier
But we don't mind we're having fun picking up aren't we dude? Yeah
You press the button you can press the button
Look who's up
Feel a lot better
Little groggy a lot better. I think Dash might agree with you that he's sleepy again, too. Are you sleepy little man?
Are you excited about daddy doing the tanks?
Daddy's always excited about doing the tanks
That's something that's new with the van. It's easier to do the tanks. That's true. I mean, it's a
You know what job but somebody's got to do it
We're making some good progress though
empty cabinets
here
Mostly empty cabinets where our food usually is
Some
Modifications we still need to make to this unit another empty cabinet
stuff
Needs to be loaded into the truck. We're gonna give it a shot and see if some of these containers will work in the van
Dash what do you think about all this? What'd you find? Oh, did you find your cup?
One of the biggest changes well, I guess there are a lot of big changes with the Airstream
One of the biggest changes with the van is our
Storage for cold things. I've officially cleaned out the fridge
which needs a good cleaning but
Officially nothing in there
Dash what are you doing? Is that fun place to make music?
What are you doing dude
But now I need to move the stuff that was in the fridge into our fridge in the van
Already know it's probably
Not all gonna fit and definitely not fit
Well, we're gonna need a container store run in our future to like we can't things to make our refrigerator work
Okay, I'm just starting with the drinks
Here's the van
Here's my new refrigerator
Yeah, these little shelves fit things like Gatorades
So, let's see, okay, that's not that bad
All right, okay, okay, wait a second
Actually, it's pretty deep
And no one kind of doesn't care but I'm actually kind of shocked by that in a good way
All right fridge loaded and I'm not gonna lie. I am super impressed
With how big this thing is. I mean, I thought that the very minimal food that we had in there
And the travel trailer was gonna fill it up completely
It totally doesn't it definitely needs containers to be like really functional and organized, but that's a win
Now it's time to do the final load of the stuff from the trailer into the truck and get this baby to Airstream of Tampa
We love you Airstream classic
And you too Sully
Doing the last of the checks
Dash is cheering Dada on in the background
Daniel's gonna help me practice backing this thing up
Hey, go for it
Keep going
Okay, you're good
Driving this thing is a million times easier than driving the truck with the trailer
And there she goes off to the dealership she goes
Not gonna lie, I feel a little sentimental about this. I definitely want to get to see her again soon
But it's still so weird. That's been our home for the last two and a half years
Here we go. Just made it to Airstream of Tampa
Dropping off our Wanderlocal baby here and we will see you again soon Wanderlocal classic Airstream
Not gonna lie
I'm gonna miss this thing because we have been through some stuff and
And it's been an amazing adventure so far so
Again, as to what's gonna happen with this Airstream more details to follow some pretty exciting stuff, honestly
But we'll fill you all in later but until then
Dropping off Airstream of Tampa
Pick it up a little bit later
All right, just dropped the keys off
at the front desk there and
One of my favorite things to do when I'm here on the lot is just kind of see some of the cool Airstreams that are
Here there's always something unique on site here this being the the number one dealer in probably in the world
You get to see some pretty cool things. So let me show you
Now if you've ever wondered where we got the idea for the blue stripe it comes from the vintage trailers like this
This is an old Acela
And it was known for the having those blue stripes that you see right there
That's where the design inspiration came for ours. You've got another interstate here. You've got some
Oh, look at this. I think it's a Caravelle. Caravelles are really really tiny
But also really practical if you're just, you know taking it out on weekends and stuff so check out this Caravelle here
You've got a base camp right here
This looks like a 19-foot base camp and this is probably yeah, look at this. This is absolutely great
I mean this right here. This is uh
It's eeny weeny like you could tow that with almost anything which makes it very very practical
for your weekend getaways. Oh
Check this out. We've got a Tommy Bahama edition here. I'm not sure exactly. It looks like a 20
25 to 27 foot Tommy Bahama edition. You can see the unique window tint here
I don't know if you can see that on camera, but oh, yeah, there you go
you can kind of see the tint there and it has a very similar look and feel on the interior as well and then there's the
The fish that Tommy Bahama is known for
So that's pretty cool
and then there's just see a sea of shiny heinies right here this one in particular is the shiny heinie of a
Classic and here we go with a oh check this out. This is a base camp X
I would love to talk Lauren into getting one of these one of these days
But it's gonna be a hard sell
So you got the airstream all dropped off I did I did
There are so many airstreams the dealership. It was kind of cool to see them all
So we basically spent the rest of the day working on organizing our lives
It's been very very clear that we were going to have to make a container run store
Container store run a container store. You're tired. It's been a long day. We're all tired. Dash is already asleep
You know went to bed like an hour and we're gonna usually that's tonight. I know
Cuz we ran around like crazy people today we had a lot to get done
on a day off, so
Yeah, we had a lot of get done
Till tomorrow my friend. Yeah, all right
Make sure you want to go this week cuz as you know, it's good for the soul
